Second MemoryDAX/DAM Winter Workshop 

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
403 Gates Hall (Fujitsu Lounge), Stanford University

8:00-9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Research Overview Philip Levis and Caroline Trippel DAM Co-Directors
Session: A Wrinkle in Time
9:15-9:45 Retention-Aware Computing Thierry Tambe Faculty
9:45-10:15 Gain Cells and StRAM: Past, Present, and Future Shuhan Liu Ph.D. student
10:15-10:45 3D Long-Term Memories (LtRAMs) for Model-Resident Inference Architectures Sam Dayo Ph.D. student
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
Session: Integrating New Memory Technologies
11:00-11:30 Optimal 3D Integration with MIQP
(work in progress, contact Colin or DAM/MemoryDAX directors for slides)
Colin Drewes Ph.D. student
11:30-12:00 Hardware Support for Server Memory Placement Chun Deng Ph.D. student
12:00-1:30 Walk to Cantor Arts Center and Lunch
1:30-2:30 Keynote: Challenges on the Way to AGI John Hennessy Faculty
2:30-3:30 Panel: Leading Challenges with Memory Today Sudeep Bhoja
Kim Keeton
Hoshik Kim
Ralph Wittig
Sherry Xu
d-Matrix
Google
SK hynix
AMD
Microsoft
Session: Quick Updates
3:30-3:45 High Density Pixel Circuit Design with Gain Cell Memory Xinxin Wang Postdoc
3:45-4:00 Packets are Not Pages: Flow-Based Addressing Conserves Memory Bandwidth Agur Adams Ph.D. Student
Session: Closing and Feedback
4:00-4:30 Differentiated Access Memories: 2026
4:30-5:30 Social Discussion